Sites of Gender Women, Men & Modernity in Southern Dunedin 1890–1939

by Brookes, Barbara; Cooper, Annabel; Law, Robin

• ISBN13: 9781869403058
• ISBN10: 1869403053
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-04-01
• Publisher: Auckland University Press

Summary

This important social study is the fruit of five years work on the complex ways in which gender operated as a social structure and a shaping force in the lives of the inhabitants of southern Dunedin from 1890 to the Second World War.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements
List of Maps
Situating Gender	p. 1
The Landscape of Gender Politics: Place, People and Two Mobilisations	p. 15
Working Gender, Gendering Work: Occupational Change and Continuity in Southern Dunedin	p. 50
Schooling for a Gendered Future: Gender, Education and Opportunity	p. 91
Producing and Consuming Gender: The Case of Clothing	p. 123
Spare Time? Leisure, Gender and Modernity	p. 151
Down and Out on the Flat: the Gendering of Poverty	p. 190
To and From, There and Back: Gender in Spatial Mobility	p. 226
On the Streets of Southern Dunedin: Gender in Transport	p. 258
The Risk to Life and Limb: Gender and Health	p. 285
God, the Devil and Gender	p. 313
Endpiece: Marriage: The Gendered Contract	p. 248
Chronology of Significant Events	p. 356
Qualitative and Quantitative Databases of the Caversham Project	p. 362
App. III: List of Pseudonyms	p. 371
Notes	p. 372
Select Bibliography	p. 419
Notes on Contributors	p. 426
Index	p. 428
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